This week
has been one of watching the rubble that was More Ok. On TV. Heroic stories of
people holding their child by their hair to save them and teachers putting their
arms around frightened children, even a woman in the OR of the hospital who
opened her eyes to see the side of the building gone. If you could put yourself
in their place you would have some idea of where Jeremiah finds himself. His prophesies
of destruction have come true. The people are angry with God so they lash out
at Jeremiah and his warnings. Soon he will be in prison, his words burned, then
tossed down a dry well.
1. Where
Jeremiah is at.
a. Jeremiah personally, house arrest, words rejected, prison, Cistern
b. Jerusalem in ruins, starvation, destruction, siege works and swords
c. Our life, people around us, our nation
D. The rubble of life and spiritual starvation
a. Jeremiah personally, house arrest, words rejected, prison, Cistern
b. Jerusalem in ruins, starvation, destruction, siege works and swords
c. Our life, people around us, our nation
D. The rubble of life and spiritual starvation
2. The word
God gives.
a. “I will tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know
b. Vs 6
C. It sounds to fantastic, unrealistic, how can God ever break through this?
d. Yet God will bring His blessing, the people return, and vs 15 Jesus comes
a. “I will tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know
b. Vs 6
C. It sounds to fantastic, unrealistic, how can God ever break through this?
d. Yet God will bring His blessing, the people return, and vs 15 Jesus comes
3. The coming
blessing
a. Memorial Day
b. our own broken Jerusalem
friendships, marriages, finical, jobs, health
c. God’s promise of blessing
it seems great, unsearchable, unknowable, unrealistic, fantastic, impossible.
Yet it will come to be
Live to bring faith and hope to those who will follow us
Live through the troubles of today because God’s blessing will come
a. Memorial Day
b. our own broken Jerusalem
friendships, marriages, finical, jobs, health
c. God’s promise of blessing
it seems great, unsearchable, unknowable, unrealistic, fantastic, impossible.
Yet it will come to be
Live to bring faith and hope to those who will follow us
Live through the troubles of today because God’s blessing will come
The great, unsearchable, and unknowable blessing of God is coming, and we live
for it.
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